Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.